When comparing ES File Explorer vs Sliding Explorer, the Slant community recommends Sliding Explorer for most people. In the question“What are the best file explorers on Android?”Sliding Explorer is ranked 7th while ES File Explorer is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Sliding Explorer is:

Sliding Explorer is designed following Google's Material Design guidelines.

Pro

Integrates with a wide variety of services

Pro

Supports SMB

ES File Explorer supports a local Samba connection to browse files on other area connected devices.

Pro

Material Design

Sliding Explorer is designed following Google's Material Design guidelines.

Pro

Root access

Sliding Explorer has root access support for editing root files on a device.

Pro

ZIP support

Sliding Explorer features ZIP file support for compressing and extracting .zip files.

Cons

Con

Connects to an IP in China

For some reason ES File Explorer installs a folder called Baidu of which any app that installs this folder connects to an IP in China for some reason. Sadly it is still not known at this time for what or why.